2 Corinthians 1:6-11

6If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

7Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.

8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

10He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

11You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.